Richard Benjamins Telco Data Analytics: what’s next in Big Data for Telcos By Lora Mihova, Strategy Manager at LUCA and Richard Benjamins, Director External Positioning and Big Data for Social Good at LUCA. The European version of Telco Data Analytics Conference took place on...
AI of Things Can Big Data reshape the Outdoor Media sector? Out-of-home (OOH) adspend in the UK rose to £1 billion 2014, and is predicted to grow by 4.8% in 2016 according to a recent report. To ensure they benefit...
Richard Benjamins The 6 challenges of Big Data for Social Good Many of us are familiar with the Sustainable Development Goals set by the United Nations for 2030 and increasingly more and more companies and organizations are contributing to their achievement. However, there...
Richard Benjamins Big Data Week 2016: Forget Big Data, Artificial Intelligence is the new kid on the block Yesterday, the LUCA team attended the first day of Big Data Week. BDW is a global community that organizes an annual event focusing on the social, political, and technological...
Richard Benjamins From Data Exhaust to Data-Driven: How CEOs face Big Data Since Big Data became a buzzword in the board room of companies some years ago (thanks to McKinsey’s report “Big Data: The next frontier for innovation, competition, and productivity”), many...
Beatriz Sanz Baños IoT for Beginners (The Internet of latecomers) Not everyone gets on the technological bandwagon at the same time. Early adopters happen to be the exception, not the rule. In fact, the most frequent scenario for many...
Beatriz Sanz Baños FIWARE, the standard that IoT needs What is FIWARE? FIWARE is an open source initiative that works towards building a set of standards to develop Smart applications for different domains such as Smart Cities, Smart Ports,...
Beatriz Sanz Baños The Internet of the Best Internet of Things Institute (www.ioti.com) started by Penton, is a research body that provides thought leadership through analysis, use cases and market trends, recently released its first selection of The...
Beatriz Sanz Baños The era of a connected society The twenty-first century will come to be known as the age of cities, but it will also become the century of data. Cities are the new engine of urban...
Beatriz Sanz Baños How to know how smart a Smart City is Forbes illustrates the clear cut contrast bigger cities face. On one hand, cities are responsible for generating 80% of the world’s wealth but compared to other geographical spaces they...
Florence Broderick Evil FOCA is now Open Source We are really happy to announce that Evil FOCA is now Open Source. We have received lots of comments and feedback about how you are using Evil FOCA, or how...
Florence Broderick How to bypass antiXSS filter in Chrome and Safari (discovered by ElevenPaths) Modern browsers usually have an antiXSS filter, that protects users from some of the consequences of this kind of attacks. Normally, they block cross site scripting execution, so the...
Florence Broderick HookMe, a tool for intercepting communications with API hooking HookMe is a tool for Windows that allows to intercept system processes when calling APIs needed for network connections. The tool, still in beta, was developed by Manuel Fernández (now...
Florence Broderick How does blacklisting work in Java and how to take advantage of it (using whitelisting) Oracle has introduced the notion of whitelisting in its latest version of Java 7 update 40. That is a great step ahead (taken too late) in security for this...
Florence Broderick Quick and dirty shellcode to binary python script https://google-code-prettify.googlecode.com/svn/loader/run_prettify.js If you work with exploits and shellcode, you already know what shellcode is and how to deal with it. Sometimes it comes with exploits in C, Perl, Python…...
